REPORTS FROM COMMITTEES,
on the following described bills, were concurred in, unless otherwise stated:
Mr. Huston's [H. R. 88] concerning Joint Stock Telephone Companies organized under the laws of any other State with certain amendments.
Mr. McClelland's [H. R 174] to amend Sections 260 and 284 and repeal Section 268 of the code of 1881, concerning public offices-so as to punish only the one who bribes another-having been returned from the Committee on Elections without recommendation was subsequently called up, read the second time and referred back to the Committee.
Mr. Adams' [H. R. 245] concerning elections and the contest thereof that, the bill pass.
Mr. Jewett's [H. R. l56] concerning taxation being-Section 6,458 of the code of 1881-with certain amendments.
Mr. Copeland's [H. R. 112] providing for the punishment for putting up false lights or doing anything whereby a vessel is lost or destroyed, with the recommendation that it lie on the table.
Mr. Sutton's [H. R. 185] concerning husband and wife, that the same do pass.
Mr. Mauck's [H. R. 167] to amend Section 2,101 of the Revised Statutes, with the recommendation that it be indefinitely postponed.
Mr. Antrim's [H. R. 243] to amend Section 15 of an act regulating prosecution in cases of bastardy, and providing for the support of illegitimate children, with recommendations that it be indefinitely postponed. The report was concurred in.
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Mr. Nave's [H R. 232] to regulate the costs rendered upon judgment, with a recommendation that it be indefinitely postponed.
Mr. Wilson's, of Marion, [H. R. 71] to amend Section 1,040 of the civil procedure act, with amendment.
Mr. Copeland's [H. R. 111] to make it murder in the first degree for any one to wantonly place any obstruction on a railroad, or displace anything whereby the death of another may occur, with recommendation that it be indefinitely postponed.
Mr. Chittenden's [H. R. 14] to repeal the sixty-seventh section of the criminal procedure act, with recommendation that the bill be indefinitely post poised,
Mr. Wilson's, of Marion, [H. R. 241] in relation to the satisfaction of a mortgage, recording the same, etc., with certain amendments. The bill was ordered engrossed.
Mr. Shively's [H. R 103] concerning the liens of mechanics, laboring men and others, that the bill pass. It was ordered engrossed.
